Eat Healthy, Live Healthy

In order to live healthy you need to eat healthy. Eating a variety of foods each day that are low in fat ensures you get nutrients essential for wellness, growth development, cell repair and disease prevention. 🙂 Apart from that, those who eat three or more low-fat foods daily consume more vitamin A, carotene, folate, calcium and iron than those who don’t.

Such foods include fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, legumes, low fat or fat free dairy products and lean proteins. Examples of lean proteins include skinless chicken breast, lean ground beef, fish, eggs and soy products.

Did you know that low fat foods such as Weetabix can help ward off serious medical conditions such as heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes?

Other benefits include:

1. Weight Loss. Another big benefit of a low in fat diet is weight loss. The reason is that low fat foods, such as Weetabix are all high volume foods that fill you up with minimal calories. Remember that fat is the much more dense calorically than either protein or carbohydrate.

2. Reduced liver fat. Fat storage in the liver has become recognized as one of the leading causes of heart diseases. A low fat diet can put the brakes on liver fat and even decrease it according to the latest research.

3. Blood pressure and hypertension. Besides cleaning out your arteries, a low fat diet usually very significantly lowers high blood pressure. An example of a study on diabetics found that their average blood pressure was a high 136/79 and fell to an average of 124/72 on a low fat diet.

To make sure your diet consists of only the good kind of fats, here’s what you should consider:

• Start your day on a healthy filling note with breakfast that’s low in fat and sugar. This will keep you from snacking unnecessarily during the day. On top of qualifying to that list, Weetabix is: a healthy source of protein, wholegrain, great source of fiber, and contains vitamins & iron.
• Checking labels on food products to ensure they contain what you need.
• Avoid frying instead steam, boil, bake, poach or grill.
• Switch things up and add more fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts to your diet.
• Make a simple meal plan to enable you to control what you eat and when you eat it.

For a chance to win a Weetabix hamper to get you started on your healthy lifestyle, tell us 2 benefits of low fat foods that haven’t been mentioned above. 😃

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